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De Narcissus, home tres ourgilleus

ballade by Magister Franciscus

Sources

Autun: Bibliothèque Municipale 152 (olim 130), fol. 160v (Cantus only);
Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musèe Condè 564, fol. 19v (3/1) (with different Contratenor);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 33v-34 (3/0); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 81 (3/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trèmoìlle), fol. 21v-22 (lost).

Facsimiles

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, edited by Friedrich Blume, 16 vols., Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter, 1949 ff, p. 633 (Pn6771).

Editions

1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 55 (CH564).
2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), Vol. II, p. 131 (Pn6771).
3. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I, p. 51 (CH564, Pn6771, Pn568).
4. French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musèe Condè 564, First Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1981. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XVIII, p. 39 (CH564).

Literature

1. GÜNTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, pp. 167, 184-187.
2. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1958. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IV.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.
4. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, p. 149.

Recordings

Monuments of the Ars Nova, vol. 102, Lise Daniels (S), R. Bontè (T), flute, trumpet, viola, directed by Guillaume de Van: Oiseau-Lyre OL 102 (10'').